{"id":9081,"date":"2021-02-14T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T05:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=9081"},"modified":"2023-02-13T15:14:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T20:14:07","slug":"valentine-if-you-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=9081","title":{"rendered":"Valentine \/ If You Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MadeForEachOtherPost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"627\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MadeForEachOtherPost-1024x627.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MadeForEachOtherPost-1024x627.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MadeForEachOtherPost-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MadeForEachOtherPost-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MadeForEachOtherPost-1536x941.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MadeForEachOtherPost-2048x1254.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What if you knew you\u2019d be the last<br>to touch someone?<br>If you were taking tickets, for example,<br>at the theater, tearing them,<br>giving back the ragged stubs,&nbsp;<br>you might take care to touch that palm,<br>brush your fingertips<br>along the life line\u2019s crease.<br>When a man pulls his wheeled suitcase<br>too slowly through the airport, when<br>the car in front of me doesn\u2019t signal,<br>when the clerk at the pharmacy<br>won\u2019t say Thank you, I don\u2019t remember<br>they\u2019re going to die.<br>A friend told me she\u2019d been with her aunt.<br>They\u2019d just had lunch and the waiter,<br>a young gay man with plum black eyes,<br>joked as he served the coffee, kissed<br>her aunt\u2019s powdered cheek when they left.<br>Then they walked a half a block and her aunt<br>dropped dead on the sidewalk.<br>How close does the dragon\u2019s spume<br>have to come? How wide does the crack<br>in heaven have to split?<br>What would people look like<br>if we could see them as they are,<br>soaked in honey, stung and swollen,&nbsp;<br>reckless, pinned against time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014<em>Ellen Bass<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if you knew you\u2019d be the lastto touch someone?If you were taking tickets, for example,at the theater, tearing them,giving back the ragged stubs,&nbsp;you might take care to touch that palm,brush your fingertipsalong the life line\u2019s crease.When a man pulls his wheeled suitcasetoo slowly through the airport, whenthe car in front of me doesn\u2019t signal,when<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=9081\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,24,17,19,50,156,3],"class_list":["post-9081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","tag-festival","tag-hedgehog","tag-penink","tag-poem","tag-rabbit","tag-valentine","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9081"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9447,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081\/revisions\/9447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}